The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival

"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father' s orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher's vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him...After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women' s concentration camp, and managed to survive...she tells this story with style and power." --Kirkus Reviews

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 05/01/1999
ISBN: 9780425166307
Pages: 353
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 7.77h x 6.01w x 0.99d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 25909 / Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival
Reading Level: 5.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 19